|
![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||
![]() |
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||
|
By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
December 8, 2006
Fairly fantastic, finely formed furious fiddling! Fancy frequently far-fetched feeble foreshadowings? Fie! Fickle flying fingers forfend feckless fates for feverishly frustrated fill-ologists!

Across
2. A crafty antenna manufacturer
6. Type of bearing
10. Has the prefix A4
12. Digital response for "received
OK"
14. Puts out a signal (abbr)
15. Output resistance (abbr)
16. To start up (abbr)
18. Contains water vapor, undesirable on Field Day
20. Give up
22. Field Day station for new hams
24. External tube dimension
25. Heats a tube
27. Runs an ARES team
29. December time zone at ARRL HQ
31. Big Blue computer company
32. Conclusion
33. What you do at your QTH
36. Flip over
38. Thin conductor
39. Handheld radio (abbr)
40. Equivalent loss component (abbr)
42. Stores electrical energy
45. Keeps an FM signal centered
47. Equal scores
48. Not working properly
49. Just a little
50. Forward and reflected (abbr)
52. Too much 50 Across
55. Strips that hold something on or together
56. Next to ND in tenth district
57. Fields in a radio wave
59. Station that runs the net
60. Long-term ham (abbr)
61. Collector current (abbr)
62. What circuits are built on (abbr)
63. Graph of radiation by direction
64. CQ for that last state
66. Oldest phone mode
67. Number (abbr)
68. Magic band propagation mode (abbr)
69. Take quickly
70. Acknowledge (abbr)
Down
1. Twisting force
2. State with its own call district
3. What something is measured in
4. North American country whose prefix is all dits
5. Pause (CW prosign)
6. Amount of delay (abbr)
7. Oldest logic family
8. One who studies
9. Packet TNC parameter for transmitter timing
11. Written agreement
13. Popular contest logging program by K1EA
17. Groups that administer or report
18. Launch facility
19. Band monitor
21. Unintended reception
22. Yak
23. Propagation across the equator (abbr)
25. Informative memo (abbr)
26. Fib
28. Non-volatile rotating memory media
30. CW abbreviation of regret
32. List of errors
34. Full of salt water
35. Duplicate installations
37. And (CW abbr)
38. One joule per second
39. Telegrapher's laugh
41. Imaging chip
43. Bootleggers
44. What CL means about your station
46. Reduction in received signal strength
51. Written in the past
53. Read (abbr)
54. Amateur satellite
55. Unhealed or unrepaired damage
58. Our type of radio
59. Bipolar transistor type
62. Engineer that stamps building plans
64. Output stage of a transmitter (abbr)
65. Meausre of weight (abbr)
66. End of message (CW prosign)